After last night’s thunderstorms (it might be coincidence) my PC today is on a real go-slow. No-go might be a better term for it.
Continuous hard disk access for several minutes when you click on any icon in a Windows program, starting a program takes 10 minutes or more, it took nearly 5 minutes to type one of the paragraphs in this email. I can’t find a solution online other than the inevitable “reinstall everything from scratch” which I know is a pathetic and unhelpful response from people who try to help but usually have no understanding of the problem. I’ve switched off the anti-virus and backups temporarily, in case the continuous hard disk activity is down to that (the last scan was clear). Windows has been restarted with no change. Just one program (Windows Live Mail) running, but the same no matter what’s running. Even QPC2 is slugged to a crawl. Any idea what else might be causing the continuous hard disk activity slugging the PC to an almost unusable crawl? Nothing identifiable in the lists shown in Task Manager for example. If I’m to complete a presentation for QL Is 30 I need to resolve this quickly today. I wouldn’t normally ask something like this on this list, I used my netbook (which is fine, so it’s not the wireless router [which shows little or no traffic – so no major update in progress] or broadband for example) to search online for any help, which was fruitless. I can’t use the netbook for the presentation as the PC is too slow to transfer the large files to it to work on. Dilwyn _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
